Jail Quotes · Page 20

As a little boy I thought I knew what I was doing, yeah man but today here I am in jail.

— Lucky Dube

I've got to formulate a plot or end up in jail or shot, success is my only option, failure's not.

— Eminem

The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It…

— Johnny Depp

“Being gay was illegal in the UK until 1982, you could go to jail for it!”

— Steven Magee

Live like there's no tomorrow! Yeah, if I'll do that, I'll be in jail the next day.

— Anonymous

A good friend bails you outta jail, a best friend is sitting next to saying dang girl LETS DO IT AGAIN!

— Anonymous

A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company

— Samuel Johnson

Lots of people think I went to prison. I never went to prison. I was in jail without bail.

— Bobby Seale

Individual rights always go along with the interests of the society. I want to add that in Vietnam we have no political…

— Anonymous

As the many male victims of rape in the regime's disgusting jails can testify, this state-run pathology of sexual repression and sexual…

— Christopher Hitchens

My perception has changed from thinking if someone's in jail they're supposed to be, to there's a lot of factors that's not…

— Maya Moore

If a man….who’s playing in front of the public, is being well paid, and he doesn’t dedicate himself to the job, I’d…

— Bill Shankly

“See this abdicated beast, once king Of them all, nibble his claws: Not anger enough left—no, nor despair— To break his teeth…

— Cecil Day-Lewis

I tell the truth, and it has gotten me into a lot of trouble. My dad used to say to me, 'If…

— Elaine Stritch

Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there. We black and they white. They got things and we ain't. They do…

— Richard Wright

In the 1920s, we thought the problems associated with alcohol could be solved by police and jails. Prohibition taught us we were…

— Rodney S. Quinn

A man cannot free himself by any self-denying ordinances, neither by water nor potatoes, nor by violent possibilities, by refusing to swear,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed…

— Howard Zinn

Sending Paris Hilton to jail for being the most loathed celeprosy lesion in the history of the species seems like a happening…

— Rob Sheffield

I was watchin' the news the other day, and I heard them talking about a criminal named Brian Regan same spelling and…

— Brian Regan

Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to…

— Jonathan Swift

You can say what you want about all the guns in the country [the USA], all the drugs, all the crime, but…

— Sonny Barger

Churchill was a brilliant and inspiring rhetorician, but one of the first things he did as the head of the British nation…

— Nicholson Baker

They attack the victim, and then the criminal who attacked the victim accuses the victim of attacking him. This is American justice.…

— Malcolm X

My cousin went to jail, and I was like, 'I don't wanna spend my life in jail.' So I just started DJing,…

— Mustard

A Real Friend Will Bell You Out Of Jail But Your Fake Friend Will Be Sitting Next To You Saying We F******…

— Anonymous

I think there are too many people in jail for too long and for not necessarily good reasons.

— Eric Holder

“Release is not the same as liberation. You get out of jail, all right, but you never stop being condemned.”

— Victor Hugo

You know what? I've never paid taxes in my life. I'm probably going to go to jail.

— Nick Diaz

I left the world of jail with plenty of relief but, more than anything, with a sense of unease that I still…

— Keith Gessen

Dallas is where Kennedy was shot, and that's where I was put in jail.

— Eartha Kitt

Morality may keep you out of jail, but it takes the blood of Jesus Christ to keep you out of hell.

— Charles Spurgeon

“I knew from experience that next to jail the place with the highest concentration of trifling bitches was elementary school.”

— Patricia Williams

I went into jail with absolutely no respect whatsoever for authority, and I came out with even less.

— Ian Brown

People were threatened, folks was put in jail just because we wanted people to try to register to vote.

— Unita Blackwell

Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their freedom, has died.

— Richard Stallman

I'm the rainbow in your jail cell, all the memories of everything you've ever smelled.

— Red Hot Chili Peppers

I grew up with my moms and pops. Pops was in jail for, like, three years.

— YG

I would rather a thousand times be a free soul in jail than to be a sycophant and coward in the streets.

— Eugene V. Debs

You can kill a revolutionary but you can't kill revolution...you can jail a liberator but you can't jail liberation.

— Fred Hampton